When the sun goes down, the Dark stretches out. The Dark can be scary, but it can be other things too - it depends on how you see it... This gorgeous picture book tells the story of a little boy's fear of the dark. With friendly text and holes cut in the pages that show shadows and a starry sky, this is a beautiful, helpful book to share with young children.

Comprehensive and beautiful volume of Greek Myths, including maps, glossary and every story you can think of! This comprehensive volume of Greek Myths is perfect for a family bookshelf, containing all of the best known myths, told in a detailed and fresh way to alight the interest of any child or adult with an interest in the gods and heroes of Ancient Greece. Beautifully illustrated plates introduce all the characters, story by story, from the most famous to the more obscure. This book serves as a wonderful introduction or a further, detailed exploration of the classics for both young and old.

This little girl sometimes finds it very hard to say hello. She struggles going into groups or parties and is very scared of starting a new school. However, when she shares her feelings, she learns that everyone feels shy sometimes - even her exuberant big brother! Shyness is just a feeling that will pass. This realization enables her to begin to find her own way to deal with new situations. She can just watch and listen until she is ready to join in. And nervous butterflies she feels on her first day? They help her pay attention - and notice children who might become wonderful new friends! The believable characters, busy scenes and ingenious holes in the pages make this a helpful, heartwarming story that young children can relate to. It's a perfect book to help children cope with feeling shy.

This is a book to treasure every Christmas, with stunning cut out peep-holes leading from one entrancing scene to the next - the angel talking to Mary, the journey on the donkey to Bethlehem, to the stable with baby Jesus in the manger, under a magnificent cut-out starry sky. The artwork is is enchanting and atmospheric, from the warm, cosy stable to the golden-winged angels appearing to the shepherds at night. With lots to talk about, this lovely edition will engage small children in the original Bible story and the true meaning of Christmas.

Follow a little monkey around the jungle, and lift leaves and branches to meet lots of other tropical creatures along the way. This charming book for little children has lots to discover and talk about on every page, from a sleepy spotty jaguar to a hungry toucan and a slow sloth.

Learn all about the seasons with this sweet little book. This little book introduces the seasons in a simple, toddler-friendly way, to help them learn about the yearly cycle. Sweetly illustrated, the book explores the weather, and what the animals and plants are doing, and what might be fun for people too, in each season. In spring there are new flowers and lots of baby animals. In summer the weather is sunny, and strawberries grow ripe. In autumn, the leaves turn red and gold and squirrels bury nuts to save for later. In winter, some animals go to sleep, and if it snows, you might be able to build a snowman!

Lift the lily pads and peep under the water to discover what's in a pond. From tadpoles hatching and turning into frogs, to diving beetles and even dragonfly larvae transforming into adults, this book has so much information for curious young children. Find out which fish has a nest for his babies, meet a sleepy newt and peep under a swan's wing to see her fluffy cygnets hitching a ride on her back.

There's so much happening in springtime! As the days get warmer, leaves grow and flowers pop up, and all the animals get busy. Peep under blossom, behind the meadow flowers and into the pond to find nests full of chicks, baby bunnies, wiggly tadpoles, and other animals bustling round in spring. This bright interactive book will absorb little children while discovering what goes on in this lovely season.

Dive down with a submersible to discover the mysteries of the ocean. Oceans cover most of our planet, and yet most of the depths remain unexplored. This book takes you deep down to find light-up jellyfish, diving whales, giant squid and whole mountains at the bottom of the sea. Flaps and peep holes will draw young children into this intriguing subject, and instill a love of this essential ecosystem.

"I'm BORED!" wails a little girl after her screen time is cut short. "That's great!" her dad says with a grin. "Being bored comes right before having a Really Good Idea." After an initial protest, the little girl dives into her imagination, and takes the reader with her on a whirlwind ride of pure fun. A cardboard box becomes a magical train, the washing machine inspires an imaginary trip into space, a scribbly doodle becomes a hungry spaghetti monster, and ants in the garden lead her into an escapade in the Funny Bug Circus. In a world where children can find entertainment at the touch of a button, it's ever-more important that they have time to be bored - because that's where they have the space to come up with their own Really Good Ideas.

In a sing-song story, Panda goes through the days of her week, saying what she does each day. Monday is nursery day, Tuesday is shopping day, Wednesday is washing day... With sweet, humorous illustrations of what she gets up to each day - painting a rainbow at nursery on Monday, baking with grandma on Thursday, and playing in the park on Saturday - this charming book uses repetition and rhythm to encourage young children to join in naming the days of the week.

How to tadpoles turn into frogs? What is the biggest frog in the world? How do frogs catch flies? In this book you'll find the answers and lots more about the wonderful world of frogs. Usborne Beginners are colourful information books for children beginning to read on their own.

Being kind is super important, but it isn't always easy. Using a goodhearted, enthusiastic little boy's perspective, a lot of sensitivity and a little gentle humour, this story explores the potential pitfalls of trying to be kind, and what being kind really means. To be truly kind, it turns out, you have to try to look at things from other people's points of view. Delicate laser cut holes accumulate as the pages are turned to show how kindness feels and how it can spread from person to person.

"I'm BORED!" wails a little girl after her screen time is cut short. "That's great!" her dad says with a grin. "Being bored comes right before having a Really Good Idea." After an initial protest, the little girl dives into her imagination, and takes the reader with her on a whirlwind ride of pure fun. A cardboard box becomes a magical train, the washing machine inspires an imaginary trip into space, a scribbly doodle becomes a hungry spaghetti monster, and ants in the garden lead her into an escapade in the Funny Bug Circus. In a world where children can find entertainment at the touch of a button, it's ever-more important that they have time to be bored - because that's where they have the space to come up with their own Really Good Ideas.

Peep Inside is the very young children's lift-the-flap information book series, the younger cousin of the Look Inside series which is, in turn, the younger relative of the bestselling See Inside series. With flaps and holes to peep underneath and through, life at the zoo is revealed. Snippets of information are combined with intriguing and stylish pictures.

Where's baby bunny gone now? Find the sweet fluffy bunny as she hops around discovering new friends in the meadow. Babies and toddlers will love lifting the flaps to find the animals, and finding out what the bunny does all day. Meet a fluttery butterfly, a tiny mouse and a springy lamb with the bunny, before she jumps back into her burrow to snuggle with her family.

A charming, simple and beautifully illustrated lift-the-flap book for little children. Little fingers can lift the flaps in scenes of dark, quiet, sleepy night-time...and reveal the busy activity beneath. Scenes include owls, foxes and mice looking for food, bakers making bread for the morning and a sleeper train travelling through the night. A lovely introduction to the nocturnal world, perfect for sharing with little ones at bed time.

Little Tiger is trying to choose a favourite colour. He looks at yellow sunflowers, red strawberries, the wavy blue sea, the pink icing on a Birthday cake... and he loves them all! In the end he just can't choose and decides that rainbows are his favourite thing because they are LOTS of colours. This very sweet, simple story will help very little children learn their colours, and have lots of fun trying to choose a favourite colour too.

Six of Rudyard Kipling's famous 'Just So Stories', carefully selected and retold for younger children. Includes: How the Elephant got his Trunk, How the Crab got her Claws, How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, How the Whale got his Throat, How the Camel got his Hump and Why the Kangaroo Jumps.

Have you ever wondered what's under the ground? A fascinating world lies hidden there. In an exciting journey into the Earth, young children can lift flaps and peep into holes to find ants and bunnies, pipes and trains, fossils and even lava!

Peep inside a bird's nest to see her precious eggs nestled there. Lift a flap to see them hatch, and find out how a bird takes care of its young. Discover all kinds of different nests and chicks, from teeny-tiny humming birds nests to great big muddy flamingo nests, and even learn how penguins take care of their eggs in the snow without a nest at all.

If you peek into the night sky and see the Moon and twinkling stars, you're peeking right out into space! Lift the flaps and peek through the holes in the pages to discover the planets in our solar system, see astronauts on the International Space Station and find out what else is in space in this beautifully illustrated book for little children.

Peep under seaweed and waves and into rock pools to discover all the delights of the seashore in this interactive little book. What does a limpet look like in its shell? What's inside a pelican's bulging beak? What is a sea otter cuddling as it floats on its back? From bugs in the sand dunes to turtles hatching on a moonlit beach, this book explores coastlines from all around the world.

Inspired by Sarah Coleridge's familiar poem 'January brings the snow', this little book describes each month of the year in a toddler-friendly way. Gorgeous animal characters show things to remember for each month, from glowing cheeks and noses in snowy January, to skipping lambs of May, ice cream in July, Halloween fun in October and Christmas celebrations in December! What better way to learn the months of the year than with this sweet, memorable rhyming book?

Where has the spotty frog gone now? Very little children will love lifting the flaps to find the frog and follow her around the pond to meet all the other animals. Discover a speedy fish, a hungry heron, five fluffy ducklings and lots of wiggly tadpoles, as the spotty frog hops, dives and swims around the pond.